Horrifying vs Monstrous - What's the difference?
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Tending]] to inspire horror; that [[horrify, horrifies; horrific.
* 2009 :
hideous or frightful
* Shakespeare
enormously large
freakish or grotesque
* John Locke
* Jeremy Taylor
of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters
* Milton
(obsolete) marvellous; strange
As adjectives the difference between horrifying and monstrous
is that horrifying is tending to inspire horror; that horrifies; horrific while monstrous is hideous or frightful.As a verb horrifying
is present participle of lang=en.horrifying
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- Jon & Kate Plus 8'' is a show based on two facts: 1)''' Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and '''2)''' the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a ' horrifying tangent.
monstrous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
- a monstrous height
- a monstrous ox
- a monstrous birth
- He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
- Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.